Best of the London Olympics (143 images)

Olympics: Opening Ceremony

Fireworks go off over Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremonies. Gary Connery and Mark Sutton parachuted into the stadium as part of a short James Bond film featuring Daniel Craig and Queen Elizabeth II. Her majesty's arrival won rave reviews -- though really it was a male stand-in posing as the queen.

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